Asking Too Much Quotes

• By not asking too much, you can believe in almost anything..like..a starry night in the mountains, or even the existence of fate.

  Aimee Friedman

  Believe, Fate, Night

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• As your life goes on you should gain a deeper understanding of the world and the people moving through it; but that might be asking too much.

  James Scott

  Moving, People, Understanding

  "James Scott’s Violent Landscape". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 7, 2014.

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• There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don't expect you to save the world I do think it's not asking too much for you to love those with whom you sleep, share the happiness of those whom you call friend, engage those among you who are visionary and remove from your life those who offer you depression, despair and disrespect.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

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• In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent.

  George Canning

  Offering, Littles, Dutch

  Dispatch, in cipher, to the English Ambassador at the Hague, 31 January 1826, in Sir Harry Poland 'Mr Canning's Rhyming 'Dispatch' to Sir Charles Bagot' (1905)

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• I expect that [trying to do the best] of my players today and of my kids. My wife says I shouldn't expect that of my children, but I don't think that's asking too much.

  Frank Robinson

  Children, Kids, Thinking

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• It would be asking too much to want to sell only to connoisseurs - that way starvation lies.

  Claude Monet

  Lying, Would Be, Asking

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• Do you not wonder sometimes, she showed now, sadly, if in some ways they are correct? That we are asking too much of the world?"No," he said. "They're the ones who are asking for too little."

  Patrick Ness

  World, Littles, Too Much

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• We're all taking on too much, we're all asking too much of ourselves. We're all wishing we could do more, and therefore just doing more.

  Sharon Olds

  Wish, Asking, Too Much

  Interview with Dwight Garner for Salon Magazine, www.english.illinois.edu. July 1, 1996.

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• The fans have been great to me. I don't think it's asking too much to have me sign something for them.

  Justin Timberlake

  Thinking, Fans, Asking

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• Perhaps we should wait until his second term begins before carving Barack Obama's face in Mount Rushmore. Is that asking too much?

  Ron Fournier

  Waiting, Asking, Mount Rushmore

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• The only thing I can hope the viewer will get from the work is something about the structure of the work. It would be asking too much, I think, for them to get my exact intention. But if - through the construct of language, the way things are juxtaposed - there is some sort of disruption of the way you would normally go about reaching photographic images... if that is happening, that's fine.

  Lorna Simpson

  Thinking, Too Much, Way

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